Think you can’t make a difference? You can — just ask the Transportation Security Administration.

When the TSA introduced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would have required airline-like security on all GA aircraft weighing over 12,500 lbs. (known as the Large Aircraft Security Program or LASP), it was flooded with comments — more than 7,000 to be exact.

“That is huge,” Doug Carr, vice president of safety, security and regulation for the National Business Aviation Association said at a forum on the future of GA security at the AOPA Aviation Summit. “Most NPRMs rarely get 100 comments. Getting 7,000 shows the effect the rules would have had on our community.”

The LASP was a “calling card to action,” he added.

“And they heard you,” said Brian Delauter, the new general manager of general aviation for the TSA.

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